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Nepal PM Prachanda to embark on 4-day official visit to India on May 31

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sat, 27 May 2023 18:17:27 +0000

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda will travel to India on Wednesday on a four-day official visit during which he will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and other leaders to further strengthen the age-old, multifaceted bilateral ties, the foreign ministry here said Saturday. This will be the first bilateral visit abroad [...]

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Nepal Prez urges people to rise above petty issues for political stability

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:25:39 +0000

Nepal President Ramchandra Poudel on Friday urged the people to rise above petty interests and maintain communal harmony to ensure political stability in the Himalayan nation. In a message issued on the occasion of the 1st day of Baishakh, the President said that “there is a need to develop a culture where labour is honoured [...]

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Nepal’s ruling alliance wins majority of seats in provincial assembly polls

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:00:59 +0000

Nepal’s ruling alliance has won a majority of seats in four of the seven provinces, as the Election Commission announced the results for the provincial Assembly polls. The results of the provincial Assembly polls were announced on Wednesday evening, Xinhua news agency reported. No single party has commanded a majority in all the seven provincial [...]

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Nepal Shuts Borders With India, China For 72 Hours Ahead Of Polls On Friday

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Tue, 10 May 2022 21:00:02 +0000

Nepal has shut its international borders with India and China for a period of 72 hours ahead of the local polls slated for Friday, according to the Home Ministry. The government decided to shut the borders to prevent any untoward incidents during the polls which will be held in 753 local units, said the Ministry. [...]

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Nepal To Sell Surplus Electricity In India’s Energy Exchange Market

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:00:59 +0000

Nepal will sell its surplus electricity to India at a competitive rate after New Delhi allowed the neighbouring country to trade its power in the Indian power exchange market, according to media reports on Wednesday. The Energy Exchange under India’s Power Ministry on Monday granted permission to Nepal after persistent lobbying from Kathmandu, as Nepal [...]

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Nepal’s New PM Sher Bahadur Deuba Wins Vote Of Confidence In Parliament

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:15 +0000

Nepal’s new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Sunday comfortably won a vote of confidence in the reinstated lower House of Parliament. Deuba, the 75-year-old chief of the Nepali Congress, secured 165 votes in the 275-member House of Representatives, the Himalayan Times reported. As many as 249 lawmakers participated in the voting process and 83 [...]

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Nepal Government Recommends To President To Summon House Session On July 18

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:00:44 +0000

Nepal’s government on Thursday recommended President Bidya Devi Bhandari to summon the new session of the House of Representatives on July 18, according to a Cabinet minister. A Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba made the decision to summon the meeting of the reinstated House on July 18, Home Minister Bal Krishna [...]

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Nepal’s SC Reinstates Dissolved House For Second Time In Five Months

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:30:44 +0000

Nepal’s Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives for a second time in nearly five months, delivering a major blow to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli who is currently heading a minority government after losing a trust vote in the House. A five-member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday [...]

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Nepal Prime Minister Oli Says Misunderstandings With India Resolved

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:00:19 +0000

Nepal’s embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has said that misunderstandings with India have been resolved and that the two countries should move forward looking at the future, asserting that neighbours share both love and problems. In a recent interview to BBC Hindi Service, Oli accepted the fact that once, there were misunderstandings between [...]

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Guides and climbers cancel Mount Everest expeditions after tragedy

Ade Adewale — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:59:54 +0000

Distraught Nepalese guides and climbers cancelled expeditions on Mount Everest Monday after at least 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, as anger mounted at poor payments for sherpas who take huge risks on the world's highest peak. Sherpas already grief…

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Six Nepalese dead while six missing in Everest avalanche

Adewale A. — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:07:46 +0000

At least six Nepalese climbing guides have been killed and six others are missing after an avalanche struck Mount Everest early Friday in one of the deadliest accidents on the world's highest peak, officials said. "Rescuers have already retrieved four…

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Hundreds attend world’s biggest Passover feast in Nepal

Ade Adewale — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:17:45 +0000

Hundreds of Jewish travellers in Kathmandu attended what organisers claim was the world's biggest Passover celebration on Monday, as food supplies delayed for weeks due to a diplomats' strike arrived just hours before the feast. Chabad House Nepal,…

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